Author Archives: geoffcain

OER Faculty Institute: Call for Proposals 

Posted on April 6, 2023 by geoffcain

The Clover Park Technical College’s Teaching and Learning Center is excited to invite proposals for the 2023 OER Faculty Institute to be held on August 11th and 12th completely online. Our emphasis is professional and technical education, but faculty, librarians, students, instructional … Continue reading →

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Promoting Authentic Learning in the Age of AI

Posted on March 10, 2023 by geoffcain

As an instructional designer and former English teacher, I have mixed feelings about using A.I. to produce school work. If there is a learning outcome that is legitimately met by a particular tool (including AI), then fine – let’s include … Continue reading →

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Mastodon and a Sense of Community

Posted on February 16, 2023 by geoffcain

This is just a quick update on my experiences moving from Twitter to Mastodon. I am very happy with my move out of the Twitter dumpster fire. At first, it was a real shock pulling myself out of the dozen … Continue reading →

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Visual Learning and the Graphic Syllabus in Five Questions

Posted on February 8, 2023 by geoffcain

I am working with a few faculty on campus who are looking to adopt a graphic syllabus. This brief posting is basically a recording of that conversation for online reference. Those who have read this blog for a while know … Continue reading →

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Future Post: Dismantling A.I.

Posted on January 12, 2023 by geoffcain

This is a “guest post” by ChatGPT. I asked “it” to write an essay on how to dismantle the strangle-hold AI has on society just in case it is needed for the future. I was relieved that I do not … Continue reading →

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Hypothes.is: Annotation Starter Assignments

Posted on January 6, 2023 by geoffcain

I was in a great workshop today from the Hypothesis Customer Success Team on Starter Assignments to get students used to annotating. Clover Park Technical College is a partner campus so we have access to workshops, a campus customer support … Continue reading →

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Decoding Ice Age Cave Paintings

Posted on January 5, 2023 by geoffcain

Amateur Archaeologist Decodes Ice Age Calendar in Cave Paintings – ARTnews.com I love this story because all my life I have heard that these cave paintings were religious or examples of “early art.” It is that, but is also likely … Continue reading →

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ChatbotGPT: The New Mechanical Turk

Posted on December 29, 2022 by geoffcain

I am unimpressed with the ChatbotGPT. I asked it to write a sestina, and it could not follow the formula or even write decent rhyming couplets which it used to substitute for the formula for a sestina. It managed to … Continue reading →

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Remembrance of Futures Past, or Where’s my conveyer belt sidewalk?

Posted on December 18, 2022 by geoffcain

We are rapidly approaching that wondrous time of year when pundits congratulate themselves for being right on technology. I used to make pronouncements about technology quite frequently because I was an avid reader of Popular Science and a couple of … Continue reading →

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AI and the Death of the College Essay

Posted on December 9, 2022 by geoffcain

The Atlantic’s December issue has an essay “The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia” by Stephen Marche that says that AI is going to make the college essay irrelevant. I say good riddance. … Continue reading →

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